Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices
Evidence
Making comparisons between groups is only one way to orient to the social acceptability of prejudices. Certain ways of talking about different, but outwardly similar, minorities implies that prejudices against other minorities like the Romanies are not only warranted, but also socially acceptable – arguably, the last acceptable prejudices. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 546
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader literature on the ‘norm against prejudice’ (Billig) and Crandall on socially acceptable prejudices mentioned in the same paragraph.
Related
- Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.88)
- Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.85)
- Anti-Roma prejudice is far more complex than direct hostility (similarity 0.85)
- Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.84)
- Prejudices are actively accomplished and sustained rather than passively held. (similarity 0.82)
- Even tolerant people express revulsion-themed hostility toward Roma (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice is formed and reproduced socially, not through internal psychological processes. (similarity 0.81)
- The norm against prejudice protects only prejudices seen as unwarranted (similarity 0.81)
- Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.80)
- Middle-class Romanians apply egalitarian principles to Hungarians but not to Roma (similarity 0.80)
- Roma are framed not just as outsiders but as a distinct moral universe (similarity 0.80)
- Prejudice research cannot be reduced to individual psychology (similarity 0.80)
- Roma are punished for embodying values central to the European ideal (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudices arising from denying moral worth need societal analysis (similarity 0.79)
- Not all prejudices are alike; each is culturally situated (similarity 0.78)